Improvement in combined seeder and sower



@initrd States @anni @Wire Letters .Patent lVo. 91,177, dated June 8,1869.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

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To all Vwhom it may concern.:`

Be it known that I, ORRIN STONE, of Ionia, in the county of Ionia, andState of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCombined Gultivators 'and Seed-Sowersor Planters; and I do herebydeclare the following to .be a full, clear, and exact description oflthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart of this specification, in which- Figurel represents a perspectiveview of the machine. y

Figure 2 represents a verticalI section through the Same.

Figure 3 represents the agitator-bar, that works in the seed-boxtof/keep the grainV from choking or clogging therein, whilst it works itthrough and past the seed-holes.

Similar letters of reference, where they occur in the separate figures,denote like parts in all the drawings. My invention consists incombining and arranging,

upon a oultivator-frame that is adjustable, and can be supported, aseed-box, and appliances by which it is made to carry and drop seed, asthe machine is advanced over the iield, by means .of itscarrying-wheels, said seed-box being arranged on and carried by thecultivator, which, in turn, is supported/and carried by raised up or letdown upon the axle upon which it is the tongue and axle, as will beexplained.

'lo enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

VA is the axle of the machine, supported and carried in the two/wheels,B B.

O is a tongue for guiding the machine as'it is drawn over the field bythe team, said tongue being braced by the hounds D I) to the axle.

To the tongue and hounds, one or both, is fastened a cross-bar, E, tothe ends of which are fastened the down-hangers, or stirrup-rods, orbars c a, to which the front of the cultivator-frame F is hinged, and onwhich it may ber adj usted, as toV height, by the series of holes 2 2,dto., therein.

To the after-portion of the cultivator, or harrowframefF, there ispivoted, as at l1, a rack-bar, G, which extends upward just in rear ofthe axle A, whilst upon the end of the tongue G that extends in rear ofthe axle there is placed a cogged segment, H, that gears into saidrack-bar'G, to raise and lower it, and with it the cultivator, orharrw-frame to which it is corinected.

The coggcd segment H is arranged on a crank-shaft,

c, by which it may be worked by the operator riding in his seat I, and apawl, or dog, d, pivoted`to the tongue, can be dropped into one of theteeth of the segment, or between two-of them, to hohl thecultivater-flame at the suitably-adjusted height, when so adjusted. Y

Stay-rods e extend from the axle Ato the downhangers a, to keep themfirmly braced, and a drag-bar, J, is connected to the tongue, andextends thence to the front of the cultivator-frame E.

On the front of the cnltivator F, and underneath the tongue C, is placeda seed-box, K, with lids j, for supplying it with grain.

The inclined seed guiding board g is notched, so as to lit over thedown-hangers a a, and the seed-box may rest upon the stay-rods e, or onthe cultivator, or partly on both.

At the front of the seed-box there is a slide, or plate, L, which can bemade to close or disclose the seedholes, by means of the lever t' andthe inclined arms j, by which it is hung to the seed-box.

Running through the seed-box there is a stir-rershaft, M, which isrevolved by a belt, 7.', which passes around the hub l of one of 'thecarrying-wheels, and around a pulley, m, on the. end of said` shaft.

On this shaft M are placed wings n, that move the grain at, around, orpast the openings, so as t insure its being passed out, and to preventclogging on the interior of the box.

When the seed-box ismot used for sowing seed, the belt k may be slippedoff, or the box may be removed entirely, without disturbing `the machineas a cultivator The cultivator-frame may be furnished with any of theusual well known-teeth, and in any suitable number.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with a cult-ivator-frame, carried by and adjustable on anaxle and wheels, by means ofthe rack G, cogged segment H, lever e, anddog, or pawl d, arranged near the drivers seat, as herein described, aseed-box for carrying, and the appliances for distributing and sowingthe seed therein, said seed-box being arranged, with regard to thecultivator and tongue, as herein represented, and for the purpose setforth.

ORItIN STONE.

Witnesses:

EARL SPAULDING, C. O. THOMPSON.

